Minifig Torso with HP Quirrell Pattern

[Tom Lemmens]

Some years ago, I imported #4702 into Bricklink Studio, and was disappointed by the many missing pieces. I started with recreating a missing torso piece by recreating the printing in Inkscape, and creating a piece with it in Bricklink's Part Designer. I sent it in to some community repository, never got any feedback. I thought of that again earlier today, I checked in, and it seems no community contributions are accepted at all these days.

It concerns this piece: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=0#T=C&C=0

I've wrangled my vector design into straight lines without curves, ran it through svg2ldraw, and then through the LD Pattern Creator. I don't know if I am handling this correctly. It seems to work fine in LeoCAD.

One color thing I was uncertain of: the printing had darker purple accents, I've put them as color 85 for now, I don't think that's quite right, but I don't know what else I could put there.

If my "method" provides workable output that people that brush up into proper parts that others can use, I might try to make more.

[Chris Böhnke]

Interesting find.

I always thought it's just shading (black dots). Just checked mine and it's indeed different.

I believe the "dark purple" is Lego's "167 Dark Violet",  a rarish colour believed to be exclusive to prints around 1998-2003. Since no true equivalent exists, this is probably something where we would need to go for a direct colour instead.

[Tom Lemmens]

Aha, that makes sense.

I've also tried my hand at the head (3626px118), a lot trickier because it's a more complicated two-sided design on a curved surface. There it's the greenish face markings that I was not able to match. I've put it at dark green (288) for now, though I think it should probably be a more saturated rendition of Olive Green (330)? Based on your mention of "dark violet", I find mention of a 163 Dark Yellow that could potentially be a match?

[Chris Böhnke]

I thought it was "144 Dark Army Green", but I've been told this is confirmed as Dark Green (Lego's Earth Green).

163 Dark Yellow was actually used for Draco Malfoy's Eyebrows

[Tom Lemmens]

Ah, haha. Maybe the examples I looked at are just a bit faded.